Re: Not about coffee and not about espresso

From: Peter T. Daniels (grammatim_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: 06/19/04 

Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 20:57:41 GMT

Bob Cunningham wrote:
>
> On Sat, 19 Jun 2004 20:27:42 GMT, "Peter T. Daniels"
> <grammatim@worldnet.att.net> said:
>
> > Bob Cunningham wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > > He's too dense to perceive that before Brian {Hamilton
> > > Kelly} had a keyboard with braces on it, and in the 400
> > > years in which his family has had that name, there were
> > > obviously various ways to make marks that would have the
> > > same effect.
>
> > And Bob Cunninham has no idea what the correct answer is,
> > from among the "various ways," but he responded anyway.
>
> What in the world could have led this fogbound P T Daniels
> to imagine that there's only one "correct" way to bracket a
> compound name?
>
> Is there any reader who could not think of half a dozen
> without trying very hard?

The question was not "What ways might he have done it?" but "How did he
do it?" 

-- 
Peter T. Daniels                       grammatim@att.net

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